Ashtanga Yoga: My Path to Real-World Strength

Ashtanga Yoga

Ashtanga Yoga: My 90-Day Journey from Skeptic to Convert Let me be straight with you. My concept of fitness involved the use of iron, grunting and a stopwatch. Yoga was an activity I considered… supplemental. A cool-down. Perhaps it is a stretch after a real workout. I believed it to be singing and performing gentle …

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My Guide to Weight Loss Retreats That Actually Work

Weight Loss Retreats

Finding My Fit: A No-BS Look at Weight Loss Retreats That Deliver Let’s be honest. I have had an up and down relationship with the scale. I have experimented with the fad diets, the intense exercise memberships that I never attended, and the undefined possibility of merely eating better. I would make some gains, and …

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Fun Yoga Poses for Kids: A Dad’s Success Guide

Fun Yoga Poses for Kids

From Wrecked to Relaxed: How I Tamed the Chaos with Kids Yoga Let me be straight with you. I’m not a yoga guru. I’m a dad. I had a concept of exercise that was to lift weights or run. The definition of exercise that my kid thought of was to bang into the walls every …

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Yoga for Weight Loss: My 30-Day Body Transformation

Yoga for Weight Loss

Yoga for Weight Loss Let’s be honest. When the majority of guys have the thought of weight loss, they visualize grunting in the weight room, sweating in a run, or dripping in a spin routine. Yoga? Flexibility and calming down, that, right? That’s exactly what I thought. However, when I reached a plateau because of …

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Yoga Poses For 2: Build Strength & Trust

Yoga Poses For 2

Yoga Poses For 2: Build Strength & Trust Together I believed that partner yoga was about chanting and placing hands. I was wrong. My buddy persuaded me to do it after I crashed somewhere in a savage plateau during my training. It is a no-nonsense account of how practicing Yoga Poses for 2 made me …

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Is Yoga a Sport? My Brutally Honest Take

Is Yoga a Sport

I break down the Is Yoga a Sport? debate Let me be straight with you. A few years ago, if you’d asked me, “Is yoga a sport?” I would have laughed. My idea of a sport involved a ball, a scoreboard, and a lot of sweating and swearing. Yoga was what my girlfriend did to …

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Yoga vs. Pilates: My Real-World Fitness Breakdown

Yoga vs. Pilates

Yoga vs. Pilates Let’s be real. I was stuck in a fitness rut. My exercise consisted of the expected cycle of weight lifting and half-baked running. I guess it was working, but I would rather have had it as a chore. I was not feeling smoother; my old back situation was just beginning to moan …

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How Yoga Six Transformed My Fitness and Mental Game

Yoga Six

My Yoga Six Review: A Skeptic’s 4-Month Case Study Let’s be real. For years, my idea of yoga was a room full of people chanting “om” while contorting into impossible positions. It seemed… soft. I was a weights guy, a run-till-you-puke guy. My fitness was loud, grindy, and measured in pounds on a bar. Flexibility …

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